Comments on: Four Words

By: jedijawa

jedijawa — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:40:01 +0000

Wow.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:24:28 +0000

I’d mostly like keep it loaded with birdshot and have something stronger at hand if that doesn’t work.

What we’re most likely to have in my area are sneak thieves and burglars.

By: John the Scientist

John the Scientist — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:21:30 +0000

Hee hee. I have a Mossberg for home defense, too, but I think I’d drag out the .45 if I only heard one person – a shotgun at under 5 meters won’t leave much left of hte bad guy, but it also won’t leave much of your possesoins that are in the bad guy’s general vicinity.

;-)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:50:56 +0000

Actually, for home defense I’d go for a shotgun. I know enough that I don’t want something that’s going to require me to have good aim in a high stress situation.

For handguns, I like loud things that go boom, so that’d just be for fun, so to speak.

Right now I have no guns of any sort, because I was raised by a woman who HATES guns. My brother and I were not even allowed to have SQUIRT guns, because they look like guns. And since my husband isn’t that excited about loud things that go boom (he also doesn’t much care for sports) I’m on my own.

Luckily, we don’t have kids, and my grandmother can’t get under the bed so we’re safe from accidents. ;)

And I definitely do NOT want a pink gun. I hate pink.

By: John the Scientist

John the Scientist — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:37:04 +0000

Michelle – many women choose to learn to shoot with a 9mm, but if you are also thinking of using it for home defense, take heed of the wise words that have been hammered into my head many times: “never get into a gun fight with a pistol whose caliber does not start with ‘4′”. The great Jeff Cooper used to say that the 9mm is nothing more than a badge of honor. The FBI lost a couple of agents in Florida shooting a coked up guy 19 times with 9mm hollowpoints before they killed him, and after that they started letting their agents use .40s and .45s again.

Don’t let some guy at the gun store condescend you into a 9mm. If you really shoot poorly with the larger calibers becuase you flinch at the recoil, go 9mm, but I taught my wife to shoot on 45s, and she’s a little Chinese girl.

By: Janiece

Janiece — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:19:04 +0000

I so want one of those…

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:36 +0000

Holy cow John, you’re right.

Reminds me, I need to start bugging my guy friends next time they’re in town… I would really like to learn how to shoot, and would like to make a purchase in that direction, but am not interested in making said purchase alone.

By: John the Scientist

John the Scientist — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:04:25 +0000

Amateurs. This is how to decorate a Hello Kitty assault rifle. It's the little touches, like the daisies on the magazine, that separate the girls from the women. Hmm, reminds me that the 5 year old is at the age where I started shooting (gets out gun paint catalog)....

By: Janiece

Janiece — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:50:57 +0000

Sign me up!